The history
Storytelling, screenwriting – the black gold of cultural industries – the central pillar for Groupe Ouest from the beginning
| 2006 | Creation of Le Groupe Ouest First funds from the Conseil départemental du Finistère and the Communauté Lesneven Côte des Légendes |
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| 2007 | First Le Groupe Ouest Annual Selection | |
| 2008 | First international sessions with TorinoFilmLab, which through its flagship unit, ScriptLab, becomes Le Groupe Ouest’s first main European base from 2008 to 2018 | |
| 2010 | Il était une fois 5, with the Pôle Images & Réseaux and the Brest European Short Film Festival, experimentation on the impact of filming methods on writing for film. Launching of the Cross Channel Film Lab, a European centre of excellence in the development of innovative images, bringing together the skills of eleven French and British partners until 2016 Signing of the first partnership with the Crédit Agricole du Finistère |
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| 2012 | Creation of Groupe Ouest Développement: the increase in numbers and the diversity of support sessions provided through professional training Inauguration of the premises at La Gare in Plouneour-Brignogan |
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| 2013 | Co-creation of the BTS Métiers de l’audiovisuel (Audiovisual Professions) course at the Lycée Saint-François Notre-Dame in Lesneven, the first free post-baccalaureate training course on this subject in Brittany | |
| 2014 | Creation of the Breizh Film Fund, the endowment fund supporting Brittany-made cinema, with the backing of the Crédit Agricole du Finistère Any Resemblance Project, a collaboration between Brittany & British Cornwall |
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| 2015 | LA SÉLECTION, an annual event created by Le Groupe Ouest & the Fondation Gan pour le Cinéma: discovery and exchange among professionals regarding French-language scripts in development | |
| 2016 | Partnership with the Boost Camp | Women’s Film Booster, initiated by the Belgian producer Diana Elbaum | |
| 2017 | Creation of LIM | Less is More, the European feature film development programme for committed filmmakers in a changing world | |
| 2019 | Launching of StoryTANK, the Think Tank bringing together scriptwriters and researchers Launch of a Serial Experiment with the Arte France Fiction Unit |
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| 2021 | Creation of the European Series Booster, a Franco-Danish experiment, together with the Arte France Fiction Unit & the TV2 channel and FilmFyn | |
| 2022 |
Le Groupe Ouest becomes key partner in two projects backed by the European Commission under the Writing European programme: Creatives and European Writers’ Club | |
| 2023 |
Le Groupe Ouest Winner of “France 2030 | La Grande fabrique de l’image”, launched by the French CNC and the Ministry of Culture, with the project “La Fabrique des Mondes”: an innovative place settled in the Coast of Legends dedicated to the creation of fictional worlds, including training, writers’ coaching and applied research laboratory |
